Proverbs 16 · Verse 24

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 16:24, King James Version

Proverbs 16:24 in other translations

BSBPleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
WEBPleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
ASVPleasant words are as a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
YLTSayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.
DARBYPleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health for the bones.
BBEPleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.
WebsterPleasant words are as a honey-comb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

What does Proverbs 16:24 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
24. (Compare Pr 15:26). Gentle, kind words, by soothing the mind, give the body health.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 24 Pleasant words are as a honey-comb - The honey of which is sweeter than that which has been expressed from it, and has a much finer flavour before it has come in contact with the atmospheric air.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
The word of God cures the diseases that weaken our souls.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Proverbs 16:24 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

צוּף\־tzuf-[are] a honeycomb ofH6688
דְּ֭בַשׁDe.vashhoneyH1706
אִמְרֵי\־'im.rei-words ofH561
נֹ֑עַםNo.'amkindnessH5278
מָת֥וֹקma.Toka sweet [thing]H4966
לַ֝נֶּפֶשׁLa.ne.feshto the soulH5315
וּמַרְפֵּ֥אu.mar.Pe'and healingH4832
לָעָֽצֶם\׃la.'A.tzemto the bone[s]H6106

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 16:24

  • Proverbs 12:18

    There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

  • Proverbs 24:13-14

    My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

  • Proverbs 4:22

    For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

  • Proverbs 25:11-12

    A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

  • Proverbs 23:16

    Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

  • Proverbs 3:8

    It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

  • Psalms 119:103

    How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

  • Proverbs 27:9

    Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.

  • Psalms 19:10

    More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

  • Proverbs 15:26

    The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

  • Jeremiah 15:16

    Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.

  • Deuteronomy 32:2

    My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pleasant.
12:18; 15:23,26; 23:16; 25:11,12; 27:9; De 32:2; So 4:11
Joh 20:19-21
an.
24:13,14; Ps 19:10; 119:103; Jer 15:16
health.
3:8; 4:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Proverbs 16:23

    The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.

  • Proverbs 16:24

    Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

  • Proverbs 16:25

    There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

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Proverbs 16:24 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Panal de miel son los dichos suaves: suavidad al alma y medicina á los huesos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Les paroles agréables sont un rayon de miel, douceur pour l’âme et santé pour les os.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Huldvolle Worte sind eine Honigwabe, Süßes für die Seele und Gesundheit für das Gebein.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Favus mellis composita verba; dulcedo animæ sanitas ossium.